My 2007 HKIFF viewing experiences (2)
談到幾齣電影:
父子 (香港)
危險人物 (香港)
莫失莫忘（前譯：愛情征服一切）(馬來西亞)
喜怒哀樂 (台灣) (李翰祥)
After This Our Exile (Hong Kong, 2006)
To say the least, I did not feel let down at all by this compelling father and son drama — and this even though it stars one of my least favorite Hong Kong actors in Aaron Kwok…
Undercover (Hong Kong, 2007)
the bald truth of the matter is that this shot-on-digital video offering can’t help but suffer quite a bit in comparison. And although its two male stars actually are ones whose movie appearances I often do look forward to seeing, their sturdy (in the case of Shawn Yue) and charismatic (in the case of Sam Lee) presence just couldn’t make up for their characters being caught in a story that’s tired, hackneyed and unneccessarily possesses the kind of misogynistic overlay that tales about heng tai don’t really need to have…
Love Conquers All (Malaysia, 2006)
This Malaysian indie effort has a reputation for being a favorite with film festival juries…
I wasn’t impressed by this effort’s acting, cinematography, editing and musical choices, never mind story and other content. Also, I didn’t feel any sense of tension or empathy for the main characters…
In a nutshell: In a film festival that appears to have had too many films with stupid protagonists, this work’s main character gets the prize for being the dumbest of them all.Four Moods (Taiwan, 1970)
Like John Woo, the late Li Han-Hsiang is remembered these days as one of Hong Kong cinema’s biggest auteurs. However, as with more than one now vaunted Hong Kong filmmaker, he also had a spell in Taiwan, during which he got into financial trouble.
To help him get through his dire straits, three of Taiwan’s top directors in Bai Jingrui, King Hu and Li Xing decided to band together with Li Han-Hsiang to make a movie that would consist of four separate stories, each of which would be directed by one of this quartet of auteurs…
Unlike all the other works which I’ve previously viewed, this one didn’t feature an elaborate set or pretty costumes…
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作者: YTSL
刊於: WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE
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